Back to episode — Episode 2108 Scott Adams - Trump Lies vs Biden Lies, DeSantis Slips, Newsom (LOL), TikTok Kills, More
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← Previous segment →ng that exists now. It's not hypothetical. They actually have a button called "heat" where they can boost any message just by pushing the button. You don't think that anybody in China can think of something they could boost that would hurt America? Of course they can. Of course they can. Now I'm not saying that we have evidence they've used it, but that's true of nuclear weapons too. China has nuclear weapons, but we don't not worry about them because they've never used them. It's just one more thing they haven't used, but they can push that button anytime they want, and we wouldn't know. So it just boggles my mind that somehow you can't get the news media to even address that by far the biggest risk, by far. And we don't know that China isn't doing it intentionally in terms of the algorithm, because they can make it look like an accident by just hiding the badness in the algorithm. They don't have to push the heat button. They can just say, you know, if it's an American and it's a self-harm video, yeah, maybe we'll serve it up to them. So there's just so many ways they can harm America that way.
All right, I've tried to decide if Democrats and Republicans lie the same way, but I might be biased about this. But here's something that seems like a trend. When Trump lies, he's usually exaggerating, right? So he'll lie about how well something went, such as how low gas prices were and how high they became under Biden, or how much was spent on Ukraine. But if you take away the lie, you still have the same message. It doesn't change. So if you say, you know, Trump, I used this example before, Trump says Europe only gave 20 billion to Ukraine and we gave 171, and it gets fact-checked, well they gave 40 billion, but we still gave 171. It doesn't change the message at all. Or if he says gas prices were one dollar when I was in office, well that's not true, it was a few dollars, but the message is exactly the same. It wasn't eight dollars. It wasn't six dollars. So it was a big difference. So that's one of the things I see. Yeah, crowd size, yeah, that sort of thing. So consistently Trump exaggerates, gets fact-checked, but it doesn't change his message at all.
But compare that to the things that Biden says. Biden tells you that Trump called neo-Nazis fine people. Is that an exaggeration? That's not an exaggeration. That's something that didn't happen. It literally didn't happen. And it completely changes how you look at the person. So there are two differences that I see. Now these are not complete patterns. You know, they both do a little of everything. But I feel as if Biden and Democrats, when they lie, their lie is completely made up and it reverses the story, right? About the story of Trump saying inject bleach. Never happened. In fact, what Trump did talk about was light therapy being injected inside the body, which demonstrated he knew more about what was happening at the moment because it was actually being trialed when he was talking about it. He knew more about the subject than some of the people on stage, the experts, because they didn't know that was being tested. But the Democrats turned that into he knows so much less than the experts. He thinks maybe you can inject bleach into your body. Complete reversal. That's not an exaggeration. That's a reversal of what happened. And you can find this over and over and over again. It's just a reversal.
But the other thing that the Democrats do is they criticize people. Now it's one thing to criticize the candidate. Everybody does that. But Biden actually goes after the followers of Trump. He basically says the MAGA extremists, who by his telling would be almost everybody, yeah, they're all bad. I don't hear Trump doing that. I hear Trump saying everybody wants to get along and everybody's good and we love everybody. There's a big difference. And if you don't catch that difference, it looks like Trump is doing all the lying because he has more volume. He does more exaggerating than other people. Yeah, Trump goes after individuals, but political individuals, whereas he doesn't go after the voters. Does he? If you have an example of that, let me know. Everybody goes after candidates. That's not what I'm talking about.
All right, so here are some Biden lies: fine people hoax, drinking bleach hoax, that January 6th was an insurrection. In other words, that the bulk of the crowd was there for an insurrection, unarmed, like that was going to work. That's literally the opposite of what they were doing. All right, this is what I saw. I saw January 6th as a bunch of patriots thinking they were protecting the Republic by what they thought was a high potential that it was a rigged election, and they wanted a little more scrutiny to make sure the Republic was protected and that the vote count was accurate. And somehow Biden turned that into an insurrection. It's the opposite of an insurrection. It's not an exaggeration. It's literally the opposite. Now, I'm not dismissing the fact that there were bad people who did violent things, and some of those bad people probably wanted to overthrow the government. That's a true thing. But it wasn't really representative of the crowd. Not even close.
How about the 51 signers of the Hunter Biden laptop letter? That wasn't just an exaggeration. That was a deliberate, staged political lie. That's very different than what Trump does. How about the Russia, Russia collusion hoax? Literally a whole made-up thing. Trump just doesn't do that, does he? Am I missing one? The one thing that Trump does is he says the election was rigged, and he gives you all these examples that don't pass the fact-checking. But here's what's different about that. I have no way of knowing for sure, but my impression is that Trump believes it. I don't think he's saying something he doesn't believe. Now he may be exaggerating on the specific examples, but I'm pretty sure he believes that was a rigged election. So is that a lie, or is he just wrong? Potentially wrong. We don't know. He could be right, but there's no evidence he's right, or at least there's no proof.
Anyway, so Democrats seem to think the biggest problem with the country is
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Republicans. And Biden basically said that today. He said, or this weekend, he was giving a speech at Howard University. He said the biggest security risk is white supremacist terrorists. White supremacist terrorists, which he'd like you to think there's lots of them and they're all Republicans. He basically just goes after people and not all people breaking the law either. All right, I'm loving…
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